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Above: Queen Margrete I, in a 1792 engraving by Gerhard Ludvig Lahde.
In this letter, Margrete announces to officials and inhabitants of Jämtland that she has taken Archbishop Henrik of Uppsala, his churches, priests and servants and all their property in Jämtland into royal protection, and orders them to obey him in all ecclesiastical matters.
The letter:
Wj Margareta med gudz nadhom Swerikis ok Norghis drotningh och Danmarka rætter ærfuinge ok førstinna sædom allom ok hwariom vm sik foghwtom lensmannom varom æmbetzmannom ok allom androm bondom ok bokarlom som byggia och boo j Jæmptalande wara naadh hylle. thykkio ok helso med gudhi. j skulin thet alle vita. at wi taghum werdhughan fadher ok herra herra Henrik med gudz naadh ærkebiscop j Vpsalom waan ælskelikin raadhgifuara hans kirkior profast klerka ok æmbetzman ok alt thet tilhørir j Jæmptalande vnde vara konunxlika naadh. fridh. heghn oc wærio, ok wiliom at han ok the skulu nywta all the priuilegia oc rættogheyt som the hafua aff alder haft aff the helgo kirkio wæghna j Jæmptalande. Thy bidhjom wi idher alla saman ok biudhom hardhelica widh waart høxsta budh at j them fornæmpda ærkebiscopenom ok hans profaste ok klerkom j Jæmptalande. gørin med kerleek ok goodhwilia alt thet j them plictoghe oc skyldughe ærin j anderlikom stykkiom ok hafuin them j them kerleek ok wirdhningh som them bør, sua frampt at j vilin ælska wara hyllist ok naadh ok fly wara hempd ok konunxlica wrede.
Datum Sudhercopie anno domini millesimo ccc° lxxx° nono die beatorum apostolorum Symonis et Jude. Sub nostro secreto.
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